The Writer's Almanac® with Garrison Keillor

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Garrison Keillor recounts the historical highlights of each day and reads a short poem or two.

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Sunday's Poem: "The Sacred" by Stephen Dunn, from Between Angels. Sunday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of Indian novelist Raja Rao, born in Hassan, in southern India (1909). He grew up going to Muslim schools in India, majored in history and English, and moved to France at 19 to study at the Sorbonne. At the time, India was still under British colonial rule, and Rao was one of the first Indian writers to try to capture with the English language the rhythm of Indian life. He wrote his first novel, Kanthapura (1938), when he was only 21 years old. Rao's works include the short-story collection The Cow of the Barricades (1947), a biography of Gandhi, as well as the novels The Cat and Shakespeare (1965), The Policeman and the Rose (1978), and The Chessmaster and His Moves (1988). In the 1960s, he began teaching Indian philosophy at the University of Texas, and he remained in Austin until he died in 2006 at the age of 97. Read more...

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